James McGovern is an industry thought leader whose focus is on the human aspects of technology around open source, SOA, software security, enterprise architecture and agile software development.

The opinions expressed herein may or may not represent my own personal opinions and definitively do not represent my employer's view in any way...

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Design patterns are guidelines not instructions...

Just because ten thousand clowns in IT write code a certain way, doesn't make it correct. It may make it OK where mediocrity is the norm. Likewise, if you don't learn something new every single day, even stuff distant from your primary job focus, you will never understand the big picture. You will become bored and will start thinking in patterns...